Toy pistol.



L. S. BIXLER.

TOY PISTOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10. 1915.

I WITNESSES INVENTOR ay 4 1.5. Bar/e2" Mm,- MTORNEYS LEWIS SHARPS BIXLER, 0F KENTON, OHIO.

TOY PISTOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 29, 1916.

Application filed July 10, 1915. Serial No. 39,092.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS S. BIXLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kenton, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Toy Pistol, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

I My invention has for its object to provide a top pistol constructed to represent a hammerless magazine pistol, the hammer being disposed within the casing and having a stud extending through a slot in the side of the casing by which the hammer may be cocked.

Another object of the invention is to provide the pistol with a trigger slidable in a guideway for engaging a member connected with the hammer, the hammer and the trigger being normally held in position by a spring.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a casing with an opening through which a paper cap may be inserted, there being lugs at the rear of the opening which prevent the paper cap from falling back while they do not interfere with the opera.- tion of the hammer; the hammer is disposed inside the casing and as the paper cap is exploded within the casing it is practically impossible for sparks or parts of the exploded cap to fly into the face or hands of the user.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the following specification in which the preferred form of my invention is disclosed.

In the drawings similar reference characters refer to similar parts in all the views in which Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a view illustrating the interior of one side of the casing, the remaining side of the casing having been removed; and Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view similar to that shown in Fig. 3 but with the hammer in another position.

By referring to the drawings it will be seen that the casing is constructed in two parts 10 and 11 which are manufactured to represent a hammerless automatic pistol, these parts 10 and 11 of the casing being held together by screws or rivets 12. In the top of the members of the casing there is an opening 13 through which a cap may be inserted, so that it will be positioned parallel with and adjaoentthe anvil 14:, which, as will be seen by referring to the drawings, is wholly within the casing. At the bottom of this anvil 14 there is a seat 15 on which the cap may rest, the cap being prevented from falling backward by the lugs 16 which extend inwardly from the casing members 10 and 11, and which are spaced from each other so that the hammer 17 may pass therebetween to engage the cap at the anvil 1 1.

The hammer 17 is pivoted at 18 and extending laterally from the said hammer there 1s a stud 19 which is disposed in a curved slot 20 in the casing member 11, it being possible by movement of this stud 19 to cook the. hammer 17. Mounted on the pivot 18 there is a pawl 21 which has a shoulder 22 positioned for engagement with a lug 23 extending from the hammer 17.

It will be seen by referring to Fig. 3 of the drawings that when the hammer 17 is cocked, the lug 23 will engage the shoulder 22 to move the pawl 21 forward and as this pawl 21 engages the rearwardly extending arms 24 of the trigger 25, this movement of the pawl 21 serves to move the trigger 25 forwardly, this trigger 25 being disposed in an opening 26 in the casing members 10 and 11. The lower trigger arm 24 rests on a guide 27 and the upper arm 24 is disposed beneath the guide 28, these guides 27 and 28 serving to hold the trigger in position, the arms 24 serving to operate the pawl 21 when the trigger 25 is moved. The guide 28 has a shoulder 29 for engagement by the upper arm 21 to limit the forward movement of the trigger 25. In addition to the lug 23 on the hammer 17 there is a shoulder 30 on the said hammer against which is disposed an end 31 of the spring 32, the other end 33 of the spring 32 being disposed against a projection 34 in the casing. hen the hammer is'cocked by a rearward movement of the stud 19, the spring 32 holds the hammer 17 yieldingly in this position until the trigger is pulled rearwardly, but when the trigger is moved rearwardly it serves to move the pawl 21 rearwardly and as the shoulder 22 on the said pawl engages the lug 23, it serves to rotate the hammer 17 so that the hammer is moved forward sufficiently far to be brought forward quickly under the influence of the spring 32. WVhen the cap is exploded against the anvil 14, there is practically no danger of sparks or pieces of the cap flying out of the pistol since the cap is exploded wholly Within the casing.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a toy pistol, a casing having an anvil, a hammer pivoted in the casing for striking against the anvil, a lug on the hammer, apawl pivoted in the casing and having a shoulder for engaging the lug, a

trigger for operating the pawl, and a spring for engaging the hammer to hold it in position.

2. In a toy pistol, a casing having a guideway, and an anvil, a hammer pivoted in the casing, for striking against the anvil, ailug on the hammer, a pawl pivoted in the casing and having a shoulder for engaging the lug, a trigger slidably disposed in the guideway for operating the pawl, and resilient means for accelerating the movement of the hammer.

3. In a toy pistol, a casing having an opening through which a cap may be disposed, an anvil disposed within the casing at the opening, a pivoted hammer disposed within the casing for striking against the anvil, a lug on the hammer, a pawl pivoted in the casing and having a shoulder for engaging the lug, a trigger for operating the pawl, and a spring for engaging the hammer for the purpose specified.

4. 1m a toy pistol, a casing having an opening, through which a cap may be disposed,"an anvil within the casing against which the cap may be exploded, lugs spaced apart at the sides of the casing in the rear of the anvil, a pivoted hammer disposed within the casing for movement between the lugs for striking the anvil, a lug extending from the hammer, a pawl pivoted in the casing and having a shoulder for engagement by the last mentioned lug, a trigger for operating the pawl, and resilient means feingaging the hammer for the purpose specied.

5. In a toy pistol, a casing having a slot in its side, an anvil within the casing, a pivoted hammer disposed within the casing for striking against the anvil, a lug on the hammer, a pawl pivoted in the casing and having a shoulder for engagement by the lug, a trigger for operating the pawl, a stud on the hammer projecting through the slot in the casing, and resilient means engaging the hammer for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of the two undersigned witnesses.

LEWIS SHARPS BIXLER. Witnesses:

WILLARD R. BIXLER, GEORGE R. MOORE, Jr.

Copies 01 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G." 

